Retro Gaming News
Love at first flight? Video games are amazing escapism, aren’t they? One day you’re exercising your destructive tendencies, running through a jungle smashing crates as a wild-eyed marsupial or wrecking some poor bloke’s car as you escape from the cops; the next, you’re living out one in a collection of incredibly niche job-related fantasies —…
Released on September 16 on Paramount+, the Golden Axe cartoon series is earning rave reviews from a few trusted media outlets. IGN admitted they weren’t too excited about the project, but now find themselves as big fans. “Having seen the entire first season, I can say that Golden Axe is certainly doing what you’d expect,…
Beware the Shotmaker. It’s been two long years since we last heard from Mitchell Hammond, the artist behind the impressive, independently produced “Metal Gear Warhead Activate” animation from 2024. But Hammond has returned, bringing with them a recreation of a familiar scenario from Hideo Kojima’s seminal stealth series. The new clip, titled “Metal Gear Snake…
Too cool for Zool? A few months ago, we reported on the news that 33 Games was re-releasing Gremlin’s classic 2D platformer Zool on the Mega Drive. One of the SKUs available was the ‘Ultimate Archive Edition’, which gives Zool fans the chance to properly pledge their allegiance to the ‘Ninja of the Nth Dimension’…
Now pay attention, 007… An artist on Reddit has proudly revealed their 3D-printed recreation of one of gaming’s most recognisable weapons: The high-powered Sniper Rifle from Rare’s beloved N64 first-person shooter GoldenEye 007. The rifle, crafted by GoldenEye enthusiast Arnielthegreat, has been authentically recreated in all of its low-poly 3D glory, complete with a wood-style…
Busy times for the Model 1 masterpiece. Some inspiring video has been uploaded to X that appears to show a homebrewed port of Sega’s Virtua Racing running on everyone’s favourite crank-yankin’ handheld console, Playdate. The two videos, posted to the account of certified tech-head Alex Urbano (@el_goe), include instantly recognisable elements of Sega’s 1992 coin-op…
“There was a weird JRPG idea, an Olympics game, and the Crazy Taxi one”. As you’ll probably already know, Sega is gearing up to release a new Crazy Taxi entry next year in the form of Crazy Taxi: World Tour next year, marking the first new title in the series since. But something that may…
Stake your claim. Mana Wave Media has opened pre-orders for a vinyl set collating the soundtrack from the latter years of Capcom’s gothic fighting franchise, Vampire Savior – better known in the West as Darkstalkers. The three-LP set focuses most directly on 1997 release Vampire Savior: The Lord Of Vampire, which was later released in…
Flippin’ brilliant! One of my favourite pieces of software for the Nintendo DSi was Flipnote Studio, a free creation tool that let anyone, regardless of experience or skill level, try their hand at short, flipbook-style animations. Admittedly, I was never any good at it, never producing anything that I was comfortable sharing with anyone but…
Creator Yuji Horii celebrates 40 sword-swingin’ years. For the past four decades, Dragon Quest has been a name synonymous with the RPG/adventure genre. From its 1986 Famicom debut to the currently developing Dragon Quest XII, Square Enix’s iconic franchise has become an indelible, almost comforting franchise for generations of digital sword-and-sorcery fans. And Slime. Slime…